Lao Tzu: "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”
J.K. Galbraith: "There are two kinds of investors...those who know they don't know, and those who don't know they don't know."
also: "Financial genius is a rising stock market"
also: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."
also: “The State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.“
and: "The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
Burnanke's Helicopter: A steady hand on the tiller can be a real killer when le Capitaine is drunk and the ship of state has sunk.